Chap. 55.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 525 of the Code of Vir
ginia, as heretofore amended.

Approved February 26, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
five hundred and twenty-five of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted as follows:

8525. The commissioners may make out tickets for their fees and
place them in the hands of a sheriff or constable to be collected and
accounted for in the same manner that clerks’ fees are collected and
accounted for. The said commissioners shall be subject to the same
penalties as clerks of the courts for issuing tickets wrongfully: pro-
vided, however, that in the counties of Pittsylvania, Fluvanna, Henrico,
Chesterfield, Bedford, Elizabeth City, Frederick, Dinwiddie, Accomac,
Lunenburg, Buckingham, Hanover, Brunswick, Mecklenburg, Russell,
Patrick, Amherst, Franklin, Carroll, Loudoun, Campbell, Botetourt,
Wise, Dickenson, Lee, Prince Edward, Floyd, Tazewell, Buchanan, Spot-
sylvania, Richmond, Lancaster, Nansemond, King and Queen, Middlesex,
Gloucester, Essex, Mathews, Northampton, Montgomery, Rockbridge,
Northumberland, Orange, Roanoke, Albemarle, Isle of Wight, Augusta,
Greenesville, Amelia, Nottoway, Warwick, Warren, Clarke, Norfolk, Cul-
peper, New Kent, Charles City, James City, York, King William, West-
moreland, Surry, Halifax, Stafford and Cumberland, and in the cities
of Richmond, Manchester, Norfolk, Petersburg, Roanoke, Staunton, Alex-
andria, Newport News, Charlottesville, Danville, Buena Vista, Williams-
burg, Portsmouth and Radford, the transfer fees allowed by law to com-
missioners of the revenue for said counties and cities shall be collected
by the clerk of the court of record of said counties and cities at the time
of recording deed or will; and provided further, that in no case shall but
one fee be charged, and in order to avoid any misconception of this act
the fee shall be collected from the first vender, and no additional fee for
the transfer of any property on which said fee has been paid shall be col-
lected during the fiscal year terminating on the thirty-first day of De-
cember of each year. The clerk, at the time the commissioners of the
revenue return to the clerk’s office the land books, according to law, shall
account to them for the fees so collected, deducting therefrom a commis-
sion of ten per centum for his services, except that the clerk of the cor-
poration court of the city of Alexandria and the city of Manchester, and
the clerks of the county courts of Pulaski, Roanoke, Culpeper and Nor-
folk counties may deduct therefrom a commission of twenty-five per
centum for their services.